The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-10-28
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGs.

There are 1SI medical colleges In the
United States. with an aggregate attendan ce
of I5. 900 students.
An odd pair OF twins was born at the
Summit county, o, Inirmary. one of the
babies being black and the other white.
Miss Hattie Brink, of Union county.
OAK. received cloak SIS present from her
father and committed suicide because 1t did
not III her.
Intelligence has been received in Lon
don OF the destruction by FIRE Of Kitah. q
town OF Bokhara, Central Asia. Half OF
the Inhabitants perished In the flames.
Joseph PIew, of Wabash, Ind, was SEN
fenced 10 a term of ninety-nine years i'm
prisonment at that place on Tuesday last
for the murder Cf three people last TebIu-
ary-
A Miss Studdiford committed suicide on
Wednesday at Chicago by swallowing
striehnine, because William Roothman,
whom she had been engaged to marry, mad
broken of the engagement
in Brown county, ILL.,, is the home OF a
man who is in bis s6th year. and has never
seen a piano, never been within 10 miles of a
railway. never wore a collar or necktie, never
had on a pair or socks since he can Iemem-
Der.
The original BARTLETT pear trees, named
after Enoch Bartlett. still stand on his
grounds, ncar Boston. and are over 80 years
old Twenty years ago a new top was
grated upon these old trees, and they still
bear fine fruit.
The United States grand jury at Cincin-
natl has found seventy indictments in the
Fidelity bank case against Benjamin f.
Hopkins and Ammi Baldwin, and seven in
dictments against Miss Josie Holmes, Har-
per's private secretary.
Bill Green, brother OF Amer, who is in
Jail In Peru, Ind. is in abject terror, fearing
the fate his brother met last Friday night
There are rumors OF lynching, but they are
without foundation. He reiterated the
statement that Miss Mofitt is still alive in
Texas.
There lives 10 Troy. Mo-, a little girl
about years o,d whose head is almost an
iron gray and IL is steadily and peIcep.ibly
growing grayer, and :he present indications
are that long before she will have reached
womaDhood her once raven black hair will
hare become snow white. Fright caused
the change in color.
Isaac Davis. OF Bolton, y. Y, has sur
pass.d all previous records as a snake killer
There is a bounty on rattIesnakes killed In
New York State, and last week Mr. Davis
presented to the Treasurer of Warren
I county an order from the Supervisor of the
town OF Hague for SSS.7j, for 35J rattle
snakes killed on Tongue Mountain since
! September 4.
In San Francisco. on Saturday OF last
/ week. Robert F. MORROW. a millionaire,
under indictment for jury bribing, was com
mitted to the county Jail 5y Judge Sullivan,
before whom the case IS being tried. No
reason was assigned for the arrest Nor.
rows bail was increased a week ago from
ten TO twenty thousand dollars, which
amount was furnished.
H. h. PETER. editor of the Carlisle
Daily Sentinel, while driving 10 Carlisle on
Saturday morning, had a narrow escape
from instant death. He was struck by a
passenger train on the Cumberland Valley
Railroad Saturday morning. His injuries
consist OF a deep cash in the right side.
caused 5y the penetration OF spoke of one
OF the buggy wheels.
The second largest bar of bullion ever
melted in the United States Assay Office at
Helena, Mont, was handled recently 1t
came from the Jay Gould Mine. weighed p
800 ounces, was little over 600 fine In gold
and was worth about S27 900. The largest bar
of gold eyer seen in the world was worth about
$40. 600. aid was the property of the North
Bloomfield Hydraulic mine. Nevsda county,
Cal.
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attacked the jail at Delphi, Ind, at mid
night last Friday night and took away the
prisoner, Amer Green, confined there and
awaiting trial for the abduction and muir
der OF LueIIa Moffitt. Amer was lynchud
by them at Walnut Grove, about seven miles
esst of Delphi. He was one OF the most
desperate criminals that ever afflicted
Indiana.
A.lady at Irdian Spring. Fla, has a hen
that is quite curiosity. 1t has coat of
hair in place of feathers. Although it is on
ly chicken, still it is a wonderful freak CT
nature. 1t came from a flock OF ordinary
chickens, and the cause of It's singular coat
is mystery. It lays, sets and matches Ike
other chickens. and some OF its offspring is
like the parent. but she has not yet succeed
ed in bringing them TO maturity.
Among the Romans there were three
ways OF securing wife-by capture. sale
or gift. When a Roman bought a wife,
aud this was the usual way, the ceremony
that followed was merely gone through for
the sake of having indIsputable evidence of
the sale. The head OF the family had 70
give her over to the husband in the presence
OF witnesses. and it is from this that we now
haye the custom Of giving away the bride.
When compelled to travel all night the
Siberian natives always make a practice of
stopping just before sunrise and allowing
their dogs to get sleep. They argue that il
dog goes to sleep while it is yet dark, and
wakes up and finds the sun shining, he will
suppose that he had full nights rest and
will travel all day without thinking of be-
ing tired. One hours stop, however. at
any other time will be OF no use whatever.
In the Colorado desert, near Idaho,
there Is large bed of rock salt, and the
Southern Pacific Railroad, in laying the
track TO the salt bed. has teen oblighed to
grade the road for /. 200 feet with blocks of
these crystals. This is the only instance
where the roadbed is laid and baIlssted on
salt. The sea which once rolled over this
place dried up and left vast bed of salt
nearly so miles long. The supply is mex
haustible and the quality excellent.
The potato bug made two simultaneous
appearances In Germany this year-one in
Ssxony and one In Hanover. The German
Government at once had men at work, who